By The Year 2000, Most Americans Will

I'm Not Good At Selling Laptops. I'm Good At Selling Ideas.

Where Do New Ideas Come From? The Answer Is Simple: Differences. While There Are Many Theories Of Creativity, The Only Tenet They All Share Is That Creativity Comes From Unlikely Juxtapositions. The Best Way To Maximize Differences Is To Mix Ages, Cultures, And Disciplines.

But Just As Elevators Have Changed The Shape Of Buildings And Cars Have Changed The Shape Of Cities, Bits Will Change The Shape Of Organizations, Be They Companies, Nations, Or Social Structures.

The Wild, The Absurd, The Seemingly Crazy: This Kind Of Thinking Is Where New Ideas Come From ... The People Capable Of Such Playful Thought Carry Forward Their Childish Qualities And Childhood Dreams, Applying Them In Areas Where Most Of Us Get Stuck, Victims Of Our Adult Seriousness. Staying A Child Isn't Easy.

The Process Of Debugging, Going An Correcting The Program And Then Looking At The Behavior, And Then Correcting It Again, And Finally Iteratively Getting It To A Working Program, Is In Fact, Very Close To Learning About Learning.